Can a tablet replace a laptop?

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30 Apr 2012, 05:07posted on

Since the (re)appearance of tablets on the mobile computing scene, a question has constantly bugged users - can a tablet actually prove to be a worthy replacement for a laptop? Well, it's PhoneArena Knows Best time again, folks, and this time a user who's facing such problem needs our help...

Asus tf300 can actually do all that stuff you just mentioned, maybe the Dvd is not inside, but you can plug an external Dvd drive, mouse and even logitech tegra 3 compatible game pad and bluetooth keyboards and/or mouse, you can plug hard disk drives up to 64 TERA Bytes and if it's still do not convince you there's windows 8 coming optimized for touch screens that is a full OS

for him, yes tablet can be a good decision. but after sometime he will realize the use of laptop is more wide than tablet.
i have many friends who own a tablet but still i find them using laptop. they will hardly use tablet. i ask them why did they get tablet if they still use laptop for everything.
the only good use of tablet i see is book reading and casual gaming. other than this every tablet owner use laptop as daily driver.

From the requirements you have, I can't help but feel that a decent netbook would suffice. Some offer huge battery performance, decent keyboards and enough processing power to do what you need. Obviously, if screen size and keyboard size are important this may sway you away, but for everything else, inclduing the price, a netbook could be ideal.

lol cannot replace laptop.. maybe in future yes.. but as of now no OS provides the functionality of Windows 7 and all tablets are under powered compared to a laptop running i5 CPU with 1 GB dedicated graphics and 4GB RAM :)

Samsung Series 7(http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/en_U​S/pd/productID.241554200?WT.mc_id=mercent&mr:track​ingCode=3AA719B2-EC65-E111-B2BE-001B21A69EB0&mr:re​ferralID=NA&origin=pla&mr:adType=pla):
i5 and 4GB of ram?!?

I had an Acer Windows 7 tablet it was some iconia W500 but its touch screen was defective, it used to record false touch response like if i touch start button the cursor used to jump somewhere else so replaced it with another W500 and its touch screen was also defective, so finally went and bought Motorola Xoom.. Its not that i don't like Android.. Its great but still It cant give functionality of Windows 7 Professional I really hope windows 8 solves that though i am not a Metro UI fan!!
About Samsung i didnt know back then :P I think it was not in market!!
Still want to see how final version of windows on ARM will be like

well that depends on what you will use it for if you do designing or play heavy graphics games like skyrim or mass effect 3 then laptop is the best choice for you however if you like casual gaming and basic business features like microsoft word or pdf readers and editors tablet is a nice choice but still laptops are more reliable overall.

we have touch Photoshop witch seems rather nice, also we have spreadsheets and PowerPoint creator apps like Quick office, they get job done, Unless you are among the 5% people that need to use macro or use 365 different fonts

While the Photoshop Touch app is nice, if you use more than 5% of the features in the full version of Photoshop, Photoshop Touch just won't do the job. Plus I would much rather use a mouse, cursor and keyboard along with a USB Tablet and Pen. But then again that could be personal preference.

I think A stylus like the Spen would be enough, the idea of a tablet should be moving away from some conventional tools, to be honest compared with the potential a Smart stylus holds a mouse cant even take it to that level. and keyboard is a tool tablets can use too. just look at the asus dock, I could see an artist having better photo editing tools on a slate than on a tablet in a really close future

As a former tablet-owner and current laptop and netbook holder, the only pros from a tablet is its thinness if you're carrying it around, battery life, and the ease of use from a touchscreen. Other than that, laptop or netbook hands down. No awkwardness from trying to prop it onto something (or using your lap) for typing, weights are similar for the portability-focused netbooks/laptops, and you get a full desktop OS (though many netbooks ship with just Windows7 Starter, which is stripped down, but still more capable than a tablet OS). Plus you get a keyboard and can adjust the screen to whatever angle you want. Also don't have to worry about compatibility of peripherals (esp. keyboards) as much, and the computer can truly multitask without fully switching programs to make changes on it.
That being said, Windows8 will minimize the gap between computers and non-computer-OS tablets by a good amount. My next computer purchase will be a touchscreen-enabled laptop (aka convertible) so I can take full advantage of the touchscreen capabilities and gestures in Windows8, but have the portabilty I want. I'd like a new convertible instead of the existing models though, given the complexities and sensitivity options of Windows8 compared to current touchscreen convertibles

I agree completely, I currently own a desktop, laptop and a android tablet, since I am a printed circuit board designer working from a home office the desktop will never go away. I use my laptop when going to customer sites and as far as the tablet is concerned is primarily used for entertainment such as ebook reading, casual gaming, and news reading. However I think Windows 8 may change all of that, a couple of months ago I ran onto this article which really shows what future capabilities may come about, very interesting.

It will be interesting to see what the industry will end up to be. Personally I think laptops are hard to be replaced by tablets but tablets can take good amount of market share away from laptops in the future. One is more functional and the other is more mobile. Both have their pros and cons. However, they are nice to have at the same time :)

I own pretty much all Office Suites available for Android, and I can honest say that they are not there yet. I just bought an Archos 9 PC tablet, the cheapest windows 7 tablet I could find, but it is a little underpowered, but it runs Office 2010 well, which is what I wanted it for. Tablet replacing a Laptop? Not for a power user, or if you type things up often. I believe that tablets will more and more be like this PC tablet I got, running desktop OS's and not so much android or ios.

for light use and media, tablets are superior to laptops in many respects.. a primary one being battery life. Tablets can last for many hours compared to 2-3 for most laptops. If email, movies, web, some light gaming, and such, a tablet is a great option.
However, you are paying a premium on that tablet. For 600 bux you could also get a pretty decent laptop that can do quite a bit more than a tablet can. So you need to best decide where to put your money... especially since you want a keyboard dock to go with it. You are basically creating a laptop.. but one that can do less than a real laptop.. for the same amount of money.

i believed that an android tablet is able to replace a laptop.
Reasons to use a laptop: programming, MS powerpoint.
Things that android tablet can do that a laptop can do: pdf, word, excel, basic powerpoint, email, CAD, remote desktop? basic gaming, flash browser.

Ahhh I'd venture to say that tablets are definitely not good laptop replacements if yiu jhave to do any word processing, MS Office work, or play actual computer games. Typing on a tablet can be awkward and if you're a student, fully functioning Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are probably necessary. And being able to have multiple windows open on a screen is a huge adavantage for a laptop, at least for me

a keyboard doc can fix the typing problems. On Android you can flip back and forth between windows since it multitasks unlike iOS. They just are not on screen at the same time. Of course there is a mod that is coming to fix that. Word and Exel are not too bad on android.. reading powerpoints are no problem, though i have yet to try to create one on my tablet..
For all that i would definitely prefer a laptop though. Full functionality with no work arounds is a much better option. Just pointing out that it can be pretty easily done on tablet if you know how.

yeah, i agree with this conclusion. i wouldn't even suggest the Transformer Prime over the Transformer Pad for anyone with real productivity needs because of it's hampered radio strength. i'm going to get a Xyboard 8.2 to carry around and use on Campus because the Laptop i have is a big, heavy beast that's impractical to carry around for my needs out. hell, i even find my sister's Prime to be too unwieldy and not portable enough for me which is why i'm more lured towards the 8.2.

Its pretty clear we are working towards a convergence device. I don't think it will be a tablet form factor, but instead a phone that plugs into a tablet that in turn has an optional keyboard dock with USB ports, etc. We're still several year away from that really being an option, but I forsee the majority of casual users being able to dump a traditional PC within 5 years or so. Right now I don't think tablets are up to being your sole computer. They are still really content consumption devices and you'll run into too many things you simply can't do. That might change with windows 8 or future updates to android.

I have the samsung note 10.1 2014 table and love it i got it when it for came out back in oct 2013 and now that it has got the kitkat os updat it is so great i also just ogt me a new smartphone too the samsung s5 and with the too i dont use my labtop that has windows 8 on it that mouch i like chrome for broswe but i do use firefox witch you can not get on ipad i do have a bluetooth keyboard i got off of amazon.com witch i am useing right now to type this i also got a microsoft bluetomouse too and i got a bose bluetooh spacker so i think a good high end table ike the note linne can with the right add on be turn into a labtop one last thing i got a bluetooh game pad for playing games so that my to cents

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